Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-11-03
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The home of sumptuary legisla-
fion is the State of Jalisco. Mexico. A
new law prescribes that all males shall
wear trousers
1t has been proposed that the jim
rikisha, the Japanese carriage pulled by
man, shall be introduced into Lon
don streets.
A chair of sanitary engineering.
believed to be the only one in exist
ence, has been established in the I'M
perial University of Japan.
Marie Antoinette's famous neck
lace of pearls. which went round her
neck in sixteen strings, is now for sale
at the shop of one of the principal
jewellers in Berlin.
"A South American explorer. Mr..
Ramon Lista who has recently visit
ed TERRA del Fuego, expresses the
opinion that frost is practically I'M
known there. The climate is excess
lively humid, but the fact that the at
tire OF the natives is scanty confirms
his opinion that the weather can not
be very rigorous. r Ledger.
-Laborers digging cut for rail-
road near Canterbury uncovered an
almost perfect circular well built of
f1ints. Local antiquaries say that it is
the opening to some subterranean pas
sage used by the Romans when they
camped there. The workmen had
previously found near the same spot
ho IF
The ancient city of Sybaris. once
the capital of splendid Magma Grecia,
about to be excavated. 1t is seven
feet under the water of the Craft
river, under which it has been lying
for twenty-five centuries. This colos-
sal work. comparable only to the ex-
cavation of Pompeii, will be carried
on by Italian engineers and archie olo-
gists, under the supervision and pa
tronage of the Italian Government
Brussels is to have theater with
out footlights. in accordance with the
plans of M. Bees, the designer of the
new Flemish theater there. He be-
lieves that the thick stratum of heated
air through which the voices of the
actors have to pass to reach the audi
ence obstructs and deadens the sound.
For the footlights he has substituted a
triple range of gas lights behind the
orchestra The new system was tested
last week, and pronounced a decided
improvement on that now in use.
Paris is adopting wood paving.
The original stone pavements were
done away with because they were too
handy for the people who wanted
something to throw in case of revolu-
ton. Victor Hugo called them 1.-THE
last resource OF the people" Macadam
was next used, and then asphalt
which. being too hard on the horses.
is now giving place to wood. 1t is
pointed out however. that, for insur-
gents, the petroleum soaked wood will
be as handy as the stones were. A
box Of matches would make torn up
paving about as efficient all instrument
of war as Greek fire.
In Servia, Bulgaria and Roumania
boots made of bullock hide or leather,
and which are simply fiat piece of
leather drawn over the foot all round
and fastened by leather thongs or
birch bark crossed over the leg. which
is encased in either stockings or a
piece of red cloth, are worn by the
peasantry. The Slavonic peasantry in
Austria also wear boots of the same
description, and so do the Turkish
soldiers, but they make their own.
The Russian peasants make shoes of
birch bark, and fasten them in the
same way over stockings. except in
winter, when high leather boots are
worn.
The French population returns
for 1886 have been issued The births
exceeded the deaths by $500. the
smallest excess known of late years.
In 1881 the excess was los, 900; in
1882, 81. 900; in 1888. 10000; in 1884,
Is. 600; and in 1885. IS. 900, The
divorces, which for the second time
figure in the returns. were 2.949 in
1886. against 4277 in 1885. Paris
furnished $50 of them, whereas Rautes
Alpes and Lozere had none. and Cantal,
Savoie and Vienne had only one each.
Public Opinion.
The gross returns from the En-
glish postal telegraph system last year
were, in American money, SO, 874, 260.
which was 81. 857, 40 less than the ex-
penditures, but the government paid
81, $50. 0S5 interest on the telegraph
Indebtedness, and franked for its own
service messages amounting to 1854. =
985. and lost about 81, O0O 900 from the
press and other sources where ex-
ception ally low rates were made and
contracts entered into. 1t is seen.
therefore, that the English postal tele-
graph system, exclusive of the interest
on the bonds created to pay for the
lines, is a very paying investment
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JUSTICE IN CHINA.